By Duncan Bell
Yesterday’s CES smartwatch contender the Alcatel OneTouch is very much your standard-issue wearable, aimed at proper techies. The Withings Activité Pop, however, is a more mass-market kind of deal, priced at $149/£119. Judging from our experience, it deserves to succeed.
Perhaps the primary triumph of the Pop is that it looks like a watch, and an attractive one at that. It doesn’t have the luxe feel of Withings previous Activité, but it’s substantially cheaper, and the removal of those high-end visual trappings arguably makes for a more attractive piece, reminiscent of the more muted end of the Swatch range.
It certainly doesn’t feel look or feel like it came out of a Christmas cracker, and though the stretchy rubber strap is initially rather off-putting, it’s actually comfortable to wear. Colour choices are “bright azure”, “wild sand” and “shark grey”, with more likely to follow if it proves a hit.
Tech-wise, it’s more of a fitness band than a smartwatch really, with the inset dial you see here displaying your progress towards your daily step goal. The goal is set at 10,000 by default but you can change it to whatever you want and step counting accuracy is consistent. Apologies for …read more
Source: techradar.com – Phones
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